Unlock your team’s potential The era of disconnected teams and silo thinking is over. When leaders and teams are not aligned and don’t collaborate effectively, they put the whole organisation at risk. A disjointed organisation frustrates employees, irritates customers and causes countless opportunities to be lost. Think One Team: The Essential Guide to Building and Connecting Teams weaves an engaging narrative that reveals how to free your team and organisation of disunity. Inside this innovative bestseller, you’ll discover how to establish and nurture the mindset and habits of united leadership, cohesive teamwork and a one-team culture. With Think One Team, you will learn a powerful model for five practices that will transform fragmented groups into unified teams. Along the way, you’ll gain vital skills, tools and methods for being a strong team contributor. A revolutionary 90-day plan will guide you in empowering your team and organisation to truly thrive in a rapidly changing world. Discover how to: Replace obsolete silo-based thinking habits with a mindset that embraces and harnesses diversity in all its dimensions Collaborate and co-create to enable agility and adaptability Shape a culture where people achieve more together Lead, build and connect high-performing teams It’s time to unlock the potential in your team and organisation. Through the entertaining story of the Big Jelly Bean Team – and an easy-to-implement model – you’ll learn how to break the cycle of silo-based thinking and empower your team to act as a focused unit. Think One Team is an indispensable resource for creating and sustaining an agile, collaborative culture.

Inspire and empower your team to collaborate across any boundary Think One Team, 2nd Edition: The Revolutionary 90 Day Plan that Engages Employees, Connects Silos and Transforms Organisations weaves a fascinating and entertaining tale that reveals how a simple change in approach can free your organisation of silo-based thinking, and empower your team to act as a single unit. This imaginative, yet practical text is fully revised and updated, and has been specifically designed to guide you in creating and sustaining the agile, teamwork-focused environment that is essential to thriving in a rapidly changing world. Throughout this enlightening resource, you will explore the five practices that define the difference between fragmented, silo-based groups and a team that thinks and acts as one. In the business world, when teams are not aligned and don't collaborate across the various boundaries, they put the whole organisation at risk. This irritates customers, frustrates employees and causes countless lost opportunities. Think One Team gives you the step-by-step guide to unlock the potential in your own team and to inspire others by showing them that the era of silo thinking is over. Break down old and outdated silo-based thinking habits, and replace them with nimble and effective decision-making methods Drive change through collaboration and co-creation, empowering teams to respond and adapt quickly Coach your team to think, learn and act as a single unit, rather than a fractured collection of independent professionals Leverage an online toolbox brimming with materials that reinforce lessons on how to lead and how to build and connect effective teams Think One Team, 2nd Edition: The Revolutionary 90 Day Plan that Engages Employees, Connects Silos and Transforms Organisations is an engaging book that breaks the cycle of silo-based thinking and empowers your team to thrive in an ever-changing world.

Radical Candor is the sweet spot between managers who are obnoxiously aggressive on the one side and ruinously empathetic on the other. It is about providing guidance, which involves a mix of praise as well as criticism, delivered to produce better results and help employees develop their skills and boundaries of success. Great bosses have a strong relationship with their employees, and Kim Scott Malone has identified three simple principles for building better relationships with your employees: make it personal, get stuff done, and understand why it matters. Radical Candor offers a guide to those bewildered or exhausted by management, written for bosses and those who manage bosses. Drawing on years of first-hand experience, and distilled clearly to give actionable lessons to the reader, Radical Candor shows how to be successful while retaining your integrity and humanity. Radical Candor is the perfect handbook for those who are looking to find meaning in their job and create an environment where people both love their work, their colleagues and are motivated to strive to ever greater success.

Every day around the world, thousands of organisations irritate customers, frustrate employees and lose countless opportunities because of one simple reason: they don’t think and act as one team. Sound familiar? Sydney, Australia. At O’Donnell’s Jelly Bean Company, life isn’t so sweet. Between communication breakdown, staff turnover and the dreaded ‘silo’ syndrome, morale is at an all-time low and the company’s outlook is grim. How will the staff at O’Donnell’s overcome these hurdles to unite and save the company? In Think One Team, Graham Winter weaves a fun and engaging business fable into a practical model that unlocks the power of teamwork across boundaries, empowering organisations to realise the possibilities that come from thinking and acting as one team. This book will inspire and guide you and your colleagues to: share the big picture not pursue separate agendas share the reality not avoid and deny share the air not stifle communication share the load not protect your own turf share the wins and losses not play I win, you lose. An enjoyable tale of jelly beans and a company overcoming crisis, Think One Team is a must-read for anyone who wants his or her organisation to perform at its highest level.

***A WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER*** From the organizational experts at FranklinCovey, an essential guide to becoming the great manager every team deserves. A practical must-read, FranklinCovey’s Everyone Deserves a Great Manager is the essential guide for the millions of people all over the world making the challenging and rewarding leap to manager. Based on nearly a decade of research on what makes managers successful—and includes new ways of thinking, tips and techniques—this volume has been field-tested with hundreds of thousands of managers all over the world. Organized under four main roles every manager is expected to fill, Everyone Deserves a Great Manager focuses on how to lead yourself, people, teams, and change. Readers can start anywhere and go everywhere with this guide—depending on their current problem or time constraint. They can pick up a helpful tip in ten minutes or glean an entire skillset with deeper reading. The goal is for the busy manager to know what to do and how to do it without interrupting their regular workflow. Each role highlights the current, authentic problems managers face and briefly explores the limiting mindsets or common mistakes that led to those problems. With skill-based chapters that cover managerial skills like one-on-ones, giving feedback, delegating, hiring, building team culture, and leading remote teams, the book also includes more than thirty unique tools, such as a prep worksheets and a list of behavioral questions for your next interview. An approachable, engaging style using real-world stories, Everyone Deserves a Great Manager provides the blueprint for becoming the great manager every team deserves.

Provides exercises and activities designed to encourage team problem solving, with ideas for improving productivity, boosting creativity, brainstorming, making and implementing decisions, and decreasing meeting time and costs

Build high-performing teams with an evidence-based framework that delivers results Committed is a practical handbook for building great teams. Based on research from Wharton’s Executive Development Program (EDP), this concise guide identifies the common challenges that arise when people work together as a group and provides key guidance on breaking through the barriers to peak performance. Committed draws its insights from the EDP’s living lab: an intensive two-week simulation during which executive-level participants run complex global businesses. The authors have observed over 100 teams collaborating and competing for over 100 combined years in this intense environment. It has yielded fundamental insights about teamwork: what usually goes wrong, what frequently goes right, and the methods and techniques that will help you access your team’s full potential. These insights have been distilled into a simple, repeatable process that you can start applying today. Getting teams engaged and aligned is hard. Committed will give you the tools you need to deal with all of the familiar teamwork challenges that get in the way: organizational politics, delegation, coordination, and aligning skills and motivation. Using vivid stories and examples from the worlds of business, sports, and non-profits, it will teach you how to: Understand the dynamics of successful teams Achieve peak performance using a research-backed methodology Gain expert insight into why most teams underperform Learn the critical points common to all great teams Committed gives you the perspective you need to combine the right people with the right way of collaborating to achieve extraordinary results.